Home Health Aide

Program Objective:  This program is designed to train students in all relevant aspects of long-term patient care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse. Students will undergo 55-lecture hours and demonstrate their skills in a 20-hour Laboratory environment. The programs consist of 9 subdivisions. They are: Guidelines Patient Care Procedures, Safety, Sanitation & Emergency Procedures, Verbal & Written Communications, Physical Comfort and Patient Safety, Nutrition, Post-Operative Care Procedures, Rehabilitative and Geriatric Care, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – CPR, HIV/AIDS. Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able to seek entry-level employment as a Home Health Aides. 

Program Description:  This program is designed to provide students with the ability to provide patient care under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse. The graduate can perform their duties in long-term care facility as well as in a private residence setting. The Home Health Aide pose the entry-level knowledge to communicate in both English and Spanish while providing the healthcare needs of the patient.

This program is taught in two modalities:

1. Face-to-Face
2. 100% online (Interactive Distance Learning – IDL) No Externship hours are performed in this program.